To ask what's an adult problem that nobody prepared you for?

[Midge1978]

For me it's keeping the bathroom clean. I don't think I ever saw my mother clean hers but it was always immaculate and rosey smelling. I can't seem to keep on top of the mould monster in mine!

Looking after I’ll relatives
Getting death certs
Arranging funerals
Being an executor and all the legal stuff
House clearance, selling assets etc

What to do when freezer breaks and was fully stocked.

Anything going wrong with the car and wondering if I always get ripped off by mechanics.

Learning there are different types of coming, skirting boards and door furniture.

Coving* lol

Oh I thought you were doing the 'Be a radiator, not a drain' kind of quote thingy TrudeauGirl

elephantoverthehill like a wheel barrow? Sorry, I don't follow.

Sometimes things just seem to sneak up on me, for example I think I'm on top of it all, then look out of the kitchen window and realise the grass probably needed cutting 6 weeks ago. Or suddenly realising I'm going to spend the whole weekend doing washing because it's appeared out of nowhere.

How boring it is.
I thought that as soon as I hit adulthood I would be able to do anything I wanted, such as go to the corner shop and buy my own weight in sweets. (I just found out the DC's believed they would do the same thing.)

1)That you worry about things.

2)That you get older and have aches and pains and don’t have as much energy as when you were young (even if you exercise a lot and eat well etc)

Buying a car is easy.

First figure out what you want, then use Autotrader.co.uk (or your choice) to find said car. Contact the dealer/seller to arrange a test drive. Figure out how you're paying for it... Most dealers offer finance but you might end up paying more.
Check online for an insurance quote. Tell them when you want it to start. You can figure out the tax online and set up a payment too. Most cars come with a valid MOT so you don't need to worry about that.
Go to dealer, test drive, sign papers and take the car.

Probably missed bits out but that's the big steps

BadPolicy sorry it's a turn of phrase. A wheelbarrow is in front of you ie the jobs that need to be done are clear to see.

Having to think all the time.

Appointments, kids, remembering where I'm supposed to be, when, with what and with whom, PE kits, school notes, direct debits, insurance gobshites trying to gobshite you, pay this, post that.

Being a grown up is relentless. Am fine now because kids are a bit older but when they were little and went to every club going I do recall PMSing that "I JUST WANT TO NOT THINK. EVEN FOR ONE DAY. JUST ONE DAY!!"

That doing really well in school and uni doesn't guarantee a career anymore. Teachers really sold that at school (the 90s) and now I feel like I was lied to.

Most of the people who didn't do the uni route ended up doing better going the vocational route

I was really unprepared for running a household because my mum literally didn't allow us to do stuff because we would do it "wrong"

That neither friendship nor romance is as depicted on tv and film

Dealing with a child who has a chronic 'invisible' illness and having to fight for EVERYTHING. So exhausting

Dealing with your child (over 18) attempting suicide and then getting no support - still haunts me.

Losing yourself due to the stress of above and realising that you no longer know who you are or what you enjoy.

Life is just sad

Basically everything. I am a rubbish adult.

elephantoverthehill ah, well in that case, no. I know they should, but I still feel like things just creep up on me.

Oh I love bleeding radiators.
That hiss is so satisfying and having to quickly turn the key back as soon as the hissing stops and the water trickles. Then, even more satisfying when the previously cold half suddenly becomes toast warm.

I love bleeding radiators!

I once did it in a student house and all the heating switched off and the boiler flashed red. I then had to YouTube the problem and quickly find out how to re-pressurise a boiler!! And then black bits came out of the sink for ages.

#studentlife

Oh I thought you were doing the 'Be a radiator, not a drain' kind of quote thingy TrudeauGirl

Be water my friend.

For me, it’s how utterly exhausting motherhood is. And how overwhelming and stressful the constant worrying is. I’m in a perpetual state of anxiety. Nothing major or that prevents me functioning or allowing them to get on with life but low level and always there in the back of my mind and the bottom of my stomach.

You can learn ANYTHING on youtube these days.

That when you get to your 40s that life turns a bit shit and stressful. You question ..is this it? Career gets more demanding. Friends start dying. Your health starts to deteriorate. Caring and worrying for ageing patents. Dealing with the stress and problems teens and young adult dc bring into your life.
I though being in my 40s that life would become easier again. No one told me it just gets tougher and tougher.

Having to pluck my chin on a regular basis. And it's getting worse

@DiegoMadonna, you really can! My parents learnt how to make a woodburner light up without any smoke in the house!

I'm now a top-quality plumber and make-up artist thanks to Youtube

That you dont ever feel ljke enough of a grown up

No one prepared me for involuntarily farting in public just because the bread is on the bottom shelf.

I'm only 40.

That first time as an adult when you have mice, set traps, hear the trap snap and know you need to go check and deal with it. All you want to do is call your dad.